Wisconsin Governor's Attack on Women's Health

Wisconsin's ultra-right-wing Governor, Scott Walker, has decided to mount a frontal attack on a popular health screening program for uninsured women between the ages of 45 and 64.  The Well Woman Program, as it is known, is being cut throughout the state in counties where Planned Parenthood (a nonpartisan and nonprofit health care group).  Claiming that the group is 'too controversial,' Walker is seeking to veil his contempt for a woman's right to choose to have an abortion.  While Planned Parenthood does provide abortion services, it is only about 3% of their clinic expenditures.  Most of their budget goes towards cancer screenings, sexually transmitted disease prevention and treatment, and contraception.  It is not clear where the uninsured women will turn when the Well Woman Program ends services in the selected counties.